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* In ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', Adam Jensen's apartment is a complete mess. [[spoiler:Although the game implies he's also depressed about his unwilling augmentation as well as finding out his dog got euthanized not just about Megan's death.]]

A character is growing the BeardOfSorrow and indulging DrowningMySorrows in his woe -- both so seriously he ForgetsToEat. Naturally, he's not going to be picking up after himself.

* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': After [[spoiler:Frigga]] dies, [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]]'s normally immaculate veneer crumbles; his hair is shaggy, his shirt is tattered, the walls of his prison cell are smeared with dirty hand prints, and all of the furniture are scattered across the floor in pieces.

* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': After Frigga dies, [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]]'s normally immaculate veneer crumbles; his hair is shaggy, the walls of his prison cell are smeared with dirty hand prints, and all of the furniture are scattered across the floor in pieces.

* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': In 1973, Charles' neglect of his mansion is a reflection of how utterly forlorn he is. His bedroom and study are extremely cluttered, plus the grass on his estate is overgrown. Hank does his best to clean up some of the mess that Xavier carelessly leaves behind (at one point we see [=McCoy=] picking up empty liquor bottles).

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* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Harry shows signs of descending into this in chapter 72, and not without excellent reason. He [[spoiler: saw the still warm corpse of Luna, who he'd been trying to protect - and consequently blamed himself for not instantly shutting off the HYDRA troops as soon as they came into range - went into a full-on firefight, was killed by being stabbed through the heart before being violently resurrected by the Phoenix, which then went on a rampage]], barely eating, barely leaving his room and apparently not bathing. Carol snaps him out of it - and makes him take a shower.

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* A rare female example occurs in ''{{PS I Love You}}'' after the protagonist's husband dies. She stops leaving the house, eschews bathing or cleaning up the piling trash and dishes in favor of slumping around in her dead husband's shirts, reenacting old movies line-by-line. (Luckily he knew she'd react this way and has set a plan in motion to snap her out of it.)

* In ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'', Serafina dresses very properly for husband, but after he dies, she doesn't leave her house for years and wears only a dirty pink slip, having grown too fat to fit into her former clothes.

* In TheBBC's Series/TheMusketeers Athos's room is full of [[DrowningMySorrows many, many empty wine bottles]], which are, aside from the bed (and a MythologyGag to the book), the only decoration.

* In ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'', Serafina dresses very properly for husband, but after he dies she descends to hardly dressing at all.

* In ''The Rose Tattoo'', Serafina dresses very properly for husband, but after he dies she descends to hardly dressing at all.

* In ''DeusExHumanRevolution'', Adam Jensen's apartment is a complete mess. [[spoiler:Although the game implies he's also depressed about his unwilling augmentation as well as finding out his dog got euthanized not just about Megan's death.]]

* Happens to Harry Dresden in the space between the books ''Literature/GravePeril'' and ''Literature/SummerKnight'' in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' due to traumatic events in ''Grave Peril''.

Compare TrashOfTheTitans and RoomFullOfCrazy. See also SkewedPriorities.

Compare TrashOfTheTitans.

* A rare female example occurs in ''PSILoveYou'' after the protagonist's husband dies. She stops leaving the house, eschews bathing or cleaning up the piling trash and dishes in favor of slumping around in her dead husband's shirts, reenacting old movies line-by-line. (Luckily he knew she'd react this way and has set a plan in motion to snap her out of it.)

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* A rare female example occurs in ''PS. I Love You'' after the protagonist's husband dies. She stops leaving the house, eschews bathing or cleaning up the piling trash and dishes in favor of slumping around in her dead husband's shirts, reenacting old movies line-by-line. ((Luckily he knew she'd react this way and has set a plan in motion to snap her out of it.))

* Happens to Harry Dresden in the space between the books ''Grave Peril'' and ''Summer Knight'' in Literature/TheDresdenFiles due to traumatic events in ''Grave Peril''.

* In DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen's apartment is a complete mess. [[spoiler:Although the game implies he's also depressed about his unwilling augmentation as well as finding out his dog got euthanized not just about Megan's death.]]

* In DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen's apartment is a complete mess. [[spoiler:although the game implies he's also depressed about his unwilling augmentation as well as finding out his dog got euthanized not just about Megan's death.]]